I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called "The Giving Tree." It was a really good book, but the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator,… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
